Catherine Frieman

(not meaning to question you, just didn't realise this is an open debate - clearly deficiencies in my own education!)

not a lit studies person but i thought this was the accepted reading?

yeah agree

what's the over/ under on when we get an ai hallucination in a supreme ct opinion?

Photo of Jane Goodall in the center, signing a book, with three women standing slightly hunched behind her. A very young Michelle is to the right, smiling.

As a primatologist, Jane Goodall was a huge inspiration to me. I admired the way she describes chimpanzee behavior with such detail and empathy, and she’s inspired so many people and advocated for chimpanzee conservation and welfare.

However, I'm dismayed at what her narrative leaves out (1/10)

ANU doesn’t need a swanky Perth office (for staff counted on one hand), it needs a national vision focused on building national education & research infrastructure. This means serving esp those from disadvantaged & non-traditional backgrounds. Serving not just the privileged.

Either universities are private businesses that get to set their own priorities or they’re public goods that are obligated to serve everyone. You can’t have it both ways.

that's a rage bait photoshop/AI image fwiw

The opening of a blogpost announcing the imminent release of an open-access teaching module, "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta."

A new #OpenAccess resource for teaching world/global history is almost ready. The module "The Black Death: The Medieval Plague Pandemic through the Eyes of Ibn Battuta," is in final editing & should be "live" by the beginning of September. A preview here: www.arc-humanities.org/blog/2025/07...

things i learned from speculative fiction: if it's allergic to sunlight, don't invite it into your house

Here I am. Once again. I'm out of archaeologists.

We matched 576 groups w/archaeologists, leaving 13 groups unmatched. This brings me pain! We've never run out of scientists like this before. 598 requests for one category is A LOT. But still.

Archaeologists 🥺
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

How a 400,000-year-old elephant skeleton solved a tantalising puzzle of early human behaviour Early nomadic humans living in Europe briefly halted to profit from an unexpected windfall, leaving some important clues about their behaviour.

Was invited to provide context for Casal Lumbroso @theconversation.com

Very cool research by @enzaspinapolice.bsky.social et al. shows people made tools on elephant bones and scavenged the carcass.

theconversation.com/how-a-400-00...

I've been doing archaeology in cornwall for 15 years, so i know the context. I'm also an archaeologist. being accurate about the archaeological and historical record and the way we define and draw on it to create identities in the present is of supreme importance. try the article i linked above

i mean if you're thinking 18th c onwards when "celtic" was used in a nationalist and romantic sense to create a shared identity among people who spoke related languages, but that's an imagined ancient identity from elsewhere politically mobilised.

these are elite bands names.

drowned kitten is 100% an all femme thrash metal band.

fat girl smoking is 90s nostalgia pop punk

Archie Moore’s Golden Lion-winning kith and kin at GOMA Archie Moore’s masterpiece kith and kin – the first Australian work to receive a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale – is now an unmissable display at Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art.

"Kith and kin is empirically one of the greatest works of art in the world and it’s right there, in Brisbane for you to visit. So go and visit it."

-- My review of Archie Moore's masterpiece, Kith and Kin, in the @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/culture/visu...

pumpernickle, toasted, with scrambled egg

People think the first thing Gutenberg printed was the Bible. This is false. The first things he printed were a political prophecy, propaganda about the Turks’ threat to Christendom, & a popular school text. If you want a parallel to AI, that’s it: making $ from conspiracies, racism, & school slop.

Re-approaching Celts: Origins, Society, and Social Change - Journal of Archaeological Research This work re-approaches the origins of “the Celts” by detailing the character of their society and the nature of social change in Europe across 700–300 BC. A new approach integrates regional burial archaeology with contemporary classical texts to further refine our social understanding of the European Iron Age. Those known to us as “Celts” were matrifocal Early Iron Age groups in central Gaul who engaged in social traditions out of the central European salt trade and became heavily involved in Mediterranean politics. The paper focuses on evidence from the Hallstatt–La Tène transition to solve a 150-year-old problem: how the Early Iron Age “Celts” became the early La Tène “Galatai,” who engaged in the Celtic migrations and the sacking of Rome at 387 BC.

"celts" as a historic group are fraught, but located broadly in southern central Europe not the islands

On the Responsibility of Historians - Boston Review The university is now center stage in not just antiwar protest, as in the 1960s, or the culture wars, as it was during the early 1990s, but in politics itself.

A little thing, riffing on the great Robin D.G. Kelley (and Noam Chomsky).

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-responsibility-of-intellectuals-in-the-age-of-fascism-and-genocide/david-waldstreicher/

Roko’s Basilisk is actually an inkjet that functioned long enough to end the world, which is the true desire of all printers

On the Phenomenology of Giant Puppets Broken windows, imaginary jars of urine, and the cosmological role of the police in American culture What follows is an essay of interpretation. It is about direct action in North America, about the mass mobilizations organized by the so called “anti-globalization movement”, and especially, about the...

watching all the protest frog photos snd posters (great work @ryancordell.org and co!) i think probably folks would find this 2007 easy by David Graeber worth reading. to my old self there's not a lot of distance between an inflatable frog and a giant puppet

i have recommended this book more in the last 12 months than in the previous 12 years

People need to read Ruth Schwarz Cowan's classic book:
hss.sas.upenn.edu/content/more...

I suppose the point of this is that quietly helping out unfashionable people in provincial locations is far less important than generations of influential people vaguely registering your name in a centre of power.

I appreciate how frustrating it must be that researchers are always telling ppl what we don’t know and what we definitely can’t conclude based on the data. But I hope, given the no of confidently wrong people currently on display, that it shows how important it is to state the facts and the gaps.

Rankings are austerity

the best part of being in the SES is that sometimes i get to end a long annoying week helping to pull a tree off someone's roof and i know I've accomplished something good that actively helps my community while also having fun